Joseph R. Garber (August 14, 1943 – May 27, 2005) was an American author, best known for his 1995 thriller Vertical Run and for the articles he wrote on technology for Forbes magazine.
[1][2] Garber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moving often as an army brat.
Garber worked for AT&T as a business long-distance consultant and a writer for the AT&T in-house magazine.
He then worked as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton for a decade, writing fiction and non-fiction freelance in his spare time.
It was bought by both Warner Bros and Jon Peters in the 1990s only to be shelved in pre-production.